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Walnut, Claro

Claro Walnut (Juglans hindsi) is a unique Walnut species that grows right around the area where Cook Woods is located. Combining beautiful violet and brownish black streaks with the browns or Eastern walnut (Juglans Nigra). Claro walnut and English walnut have been favored for high end rifles and shotguns by many over the years. They are also used for guitars of various kinds and many other applications including fine furniture, boxes, and high quality turned items. Most of the supply originates in orchards as either production walnut trees (English grafted to the Claro roots) or wind row trees to slow the wind and show property lines (Claro without graft). Claro is a beautiful wood that is in high demand and short supply. Claro Walnut is dense but works and finishes well with the use of a grain sealer.

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This is kiln dried and ready to use. It has a nice color with some fiddleback. There is a rough edge that will easily fall outside of the template.

Walnut, Claro

Claro Walnut (Juglans hindsi) is a unique Walnut species that grows right around the area where Cook Woods is located. Combining beautiful violet and brownish black streaks with the browns or Eastern walnut (Juglans Nigra). Claro walnut and English walnut have been favored for high end rifles and shotguns by many over the years. They are also used for guitars of various kinds and many other applications including fine furniture, boxes, and high quality turned items. Most of the supply originates in orchards as either production walnut trees (English grafted to the Claro roots) or wind row trees to slow the wind and show property lines (Claro without graft). Claro is a beautiful wood that is in high demand and short supply. Claro Walnut is dense but works and finishes well with the use of a grain sealer.

DETAILS

This is quartersawn with great color and figure! There are a couple of minor checks that fall outside of the template area. This is dry and ready to use.

Thuya Burl

Thuya wood (pronounced two-ya) is from the Thuya tree (Tetraclinis articulate in Latin, and Araar in Moroccan). This biblical tree is a conifer from the cedar family, and is exclusively native to Morocco. This highly praised conifer grows only in the forests of the Atlas mountains east of Essaouira, the beautiful coastal town famous for its ancient and contemporary history, museums, art galleries, world music festival, and above all for its Thuya wood craftsmanship. Thuya wood was highly praised by Romans and Greeks, and its oils were used in religious rituals and ceremonies. Thuya trees reach maturity over many decades. Still the praised part of this tree is not the trunk, but the burl buried in the ground. The burl has a deeper color, a more concentrated aroma, and a fascinating grain. Today these burls are very scarce and hard to locate, extract, and transport. High demand over the centuries has greatly reduced the Thuya forests, and looking for underground burls is something like sifting through sand for grains of gold. Moreover, most of these burls are very small, therefore the fact that most of the items made from this luxurious wood are of a small nature. Another hindrance is that burls generally have large splits and defects that need to be cut out. When luck strikes and a large solid burl is found, it is bid on by artisans, and is sold to the highest bidder. Burls are moved from mountainous areas on mules and donkeys as they are the only form of transportation suited to the task. All that having been said, the real value of the Thuya handcrafted goods is in the highly skilled artists who intricately design Thuya burls into breathtaking masterpieces.

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Beautiful Moroccan Thuya burl that is expertly cut with lots of burl eyes! Dry and ready to use, most blanks are waxed except thin material, knife and pistol grips, and larger slab pieces. Great for many projects! This is a rare desert gem! Below the numbers there is a 2-1/2" incursion that wraps over the edge grain about 1-1/2". Must be able to work with or around this noted defect. This piece is mostly quartersawn so the burl eyes show on the edges. This will produce a lot of exhibition grade knife scales or pistol grips.

Walnut, Claro

Claro Walnut (Juglans hindsi) is a unique Walnut species that grows right around the area where Cook Woods is located. Combining beautiful violet and brownish black streaks with the browns or Eastern walnut (Juglans Nigra). Claro walnut and English walnut have been favored for high end rifles and shotguns by many over the years. They are also used for guitars of various kinds and many other applications including fine furniture, boxes, and high quality turned items. Most of the supply originates in orchards as either production walnut trees (English grafted to the Claro roots) or wind row trees to slow the wind and show property lines (Claro without graft). Claro is a beautiful wood that is in high demand and short supply. Claro Walnut is dense but works and finishes well with the use of a grain sealer.

DETAILS

This piece has amazing color and has been air dried for 5 years. The best use for this piece would be for a small shotgun or rifle butt stock blank. It does have a 5/8" knot with a check. Most smaller templates will fall outside of this.

Walnut, Claro

Claro Walnut (Juglans hindsi) is a unique Walnut species that grows right around the area where Cook Woods is located. Combining beautiful violet and brownish black streaks with the browns or Eastern walnut (Juglans Nigra). Claro walnut and English walnut have been favored for high end rifles and shotguns by many over the years. They are also used for guitars of various kinds and many other applications including fine furniture, boxes, and high quality turned items. Most of the supply originates in orchards as either production walnut trees (English grafted to the Claro roots) or wind row trees to slow the wind and show property lines (Claro without graft). Claro is a beautiful wood that is in high demand and short supply. Claro Walnut is dense but works and finishes well with the use of a grain sealer.

DETAILS

This beautiful wood has been kiln dried and surfaced on two sides. Some slight residual moisture may be present in a few pieces as specifically noted in the description of each piece. There are some occasional surface or end checks present, and there may be a slight bow or twist up to 1/16”. There may be an occasional pin hole or minor bug hole. Overall, this is really nice and clean material brimming with color and figure! There are a few cluster burls in the end of the butt stock with small incursions. Cut in 2007 and air dried with a moisture content of 9% or less. Beautiful piece!

Walnut, Claro

Claro Walnut (Juglans hindsi) is a unique Walnut species that grows right around the area where Cook Woods is located. Combining beautiful violet and brownish black streaks with the browns or Eastern walnut (Juglans Nigra). Claro walnut and English walnut have been favored for high end rifles and shotguns by many over the years. They are also used for guitars of various kinds and many other applications including fine furniture, boxes, and high quality turned items. Most of the supply originates in orchards as either production walnut trees (English grafted to the Claro roots) or wind row trees to slow the wind and show property lines (Claro without graft). Claro is a beautiful wood that is in high demand and short supply. Claro Walnut is dense but works and finishes well with the use of a grain sealer.

DETAILS

This beautiful wood has been kiln dried and surfaced on two sides. Some slight residual moisture may be present in a few pieces as specifically noted in the description of each piece. There are some occasional surface or end checks present, and there may be a slight bow or twist up to 1/16”. There may be an occasional pin hole or minor bug hole. Overall, this is really nice and clean material brimming with color and figure! This piece is quarter to rift sawn. The wide end is quartered. Beautiful figured English walnut with a small bit of Claro grafted at the wide end. There is a rounded corner from knot wood below the numbers. This has been air dried for 5 years plus. Could be used for a shotgun butt stock. There's a 3/4" end check at the narrow end.